The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a new draft of an ecological risk assessment Thursday which found dicamba to potentially adversely affect birds, mammals, bees, freshwater fish, aquatic vascular plants and non-target terrestrial plants through spray drift.
EPA also reported no evidence of the new measures introduced in October 2020 has reduced the number of off-target incidents. Since the initial registration in 2016, EPA says there has been a substantial increase in the number of non-target plant incident reports. The agency says it is presently working with states and relevant stakeholders to gather information from the 2022 growing season.
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